The general tendencies regarding the sports training are highlighted, as well as the particularities of the sports training of the beginner volleyball players. The study of the specialized literature, regarding the need of an adequate planning in the training of the beginner volleyball players, allowed to obtain some relevant information for the understanding the methodology of learning digging in volleyball at the level of beginners. At the same time, following the analysis of the studied literary sources, it was found that there are not enough examples of application in the process of training the methods and means of learning the technical elements and procedures of the game in order to improve the game performance of beginner volleyball players. However, in the literature there are very few literary sources that would refer to the methodology of training the technique of digging in the game of volleyball, these being elements of the defence game in volleyball.